Will Held
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Will Held
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Modeling Linguistic Variation to expand ownership of NLP tools

Views my own, but affiliations that might influence them:
ML PhD Student under Prof. Diyi Yang
2x RS Intern🦙 Pretraining
Alum NYU Abu Dhabi
Burqueño
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The Model Context Protocol is cool because it gives external developers a way to add meaningful functionality on top of LLM platforms.

To limit test this, I made a "Realtime Voice" MCP using free STT, VAD, and TTS systems. The result is a janky, but makes me me excited about the ecosystem to come!
April 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM